CICLO DI GIBBS (1998)

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CICLO DI GIBBS (1998)

• Jasper, M. (2003) Beginning Reflective Practice
  Foundations in Nursing and Health Care. Nelson
  Thornes Cheltenham

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REFLECTIVE CYCLE
Description (What happened?)
Feelings (What were you thinking feeling?)
Action Plan (If it arose again what would do
you do?)
Evaluation What was good bad about the
experience?)
Conclusion
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STAGE 1 DESCRIPTION OF THE EVENT

• Describe in detail the event you are reflecting
  on. Include e.g. where were you who else was
  there why were you there what were you doing
  what were other people doing what was the
  context of the event what happened what was
  your part in this what parts did the other
  people play what was the result.

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STAGE 2 FEELINGS

• At this stage try to recall and explore the
  things that were going on inside your head, i.e.
  why does this event stick in your mind? Include
  e.g. how you were feeling when the event started
  what you were thinking about at the time how did
  it make you feel how did other people make you
  feel how did you feel about the outcome of the
  event what do you think about it now.

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STAGE 3 EVALUATION

• Try to evaluate or make a judgement about what
  has happened. Consider what was good about the
  experience and what was bad about the experience
  or didnt go so well

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STAGE 4 ANALYSIS

• Break the event down into its component parts so
  they can be explored separately. You may need to
  ask more detailed questions about the answers to
  the last stage. Include e.g. what went well what
  did you do well what did others do well what
  went wrong or did not turn out how it should have
  done in what way did you or others contribute to
  this

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STAGE 5 CONCLUSION

• This differs from the evaluation stage in that
  now you have explored the issue from different
  angles and have a lot of information to base your
  judgement. It is here that you are likely to
  develop insight into you own and other peoples
  behaviour in terms of how they contributed to the
  outcome of the event. Remember the purpose of
  reflection is to learn from an experience.
  Without detailed analysis and honest exploration
  that occurs during all the previous stages, it is
  unlikely that all aspects of the event will be
  taken into account and therefore valuable
  opportunities for learning can be missed. During
  this stage you should ask yourself what you could
  have done differently.

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STAGE 6 ACTION PLAN

• During this stage you should think yourself
  forward into encountering the event again and to
  plan what you would do would you act
  differently or would you be likely to do the
  same? Here the cycle is tentatively completed
  and suggests that should the event occur again it
  will be the focus of another reflective cycle